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Cam § , q (LRT _-~_Fortunately, the cage was WHURS., JANUARY 29th, 1931 Page 7 THE HAILEYBURIAN ---------------- 1 Leslie McFarlane Ca "THE CRIME CAT" appears in these columns by special permission of the edi- tor of the All-Star Detective Stories, in which magazine the story originally ap- 4 peared. Leslie McFarlane's mystery tales Yo appear regularly in All-Star Detective j Stories. 1 Chapter II The Cigarette-Case Death was the only outcome of that dizzy plunge from the sixth storey to the concrete of the court below. Kelvey, awed and shaken by the swift fate that had overtaken the fugitive, gazed down into the tiny yard at the base of the steep walls. In the radiance of a light at the entrance of the court he saw a sprawling, crumpled shape. He stepped back onto the land- ing and flung himself across the window - sill. Roberts, ashen- faced, gulped: "He--he fell?" "Slipped as he left the next Janding," said Kelvey, grimly. He gestured toward the wall telephone. "You had better tele- phone to the police." The manager was moving slow- ly toward the telephone, like a man in a daze, as Kelvey hurried out of the apartment and made his way toward the elevator. just descending from the upper floors so he was not kept waiting, and within two minutes he had reach- ed the courtyard. The clatter on the fire escape, and the terrified scream of the doomed man had aroused many of the tenants. Windows were being raised, excited inquiries were being hurled back and forth from the upper stories and two men had already reached the object on the concrete. Nothing could be done. The man had been killed instantly. "after one swift glance Kelvey would have turned away, as the two other men had done, but his eye caught the glint of light on an object near the base of the wall. He went over and picked it up. ' : The object was a thin gold cig- arette case. It had fallen open and cigarettes were spilled about on the pavement. On the cover of the case he saw a_monogram, "AV", neatly engraved. "T heard him yell," one of the men was saying, excitedly. I heard him yell, just as I was coming out the door, and I saw him drop. I SAW him. Till never forget it......" e- Others were hastening into the court. A gabbling crowd col- jected. Kelvey slipped the cig- arette case into his pocket. He saw a policeman pushing his way forward among the people. Kelvey went back into the puilding, reaching the lobby just as an automobile drew up at the door and disgorged a squad 'of headquarters men. Roberts, the manager, looking gray and ill, emerged from the elevator. "Inspector Malloy, of the detec- tive bureau, spied'Kelvey. The two were not on friendly terms. The memory of a number of cases which Kelvey's independent in- vestigations had ' solved after Malloy had admitted failure, stil rankled ,and the inspector had gone out of his way to dub Kel- vey a busybody and a theorist. "Roberts tells mie you've been in on this," snapped Malloy. X "Not intentionally, inspector, smiled Kelvey, agreeably. "It's your case. I advised Roberts to call you up." : "Tt'd serve you right if we let you handle it by yourself, all the way. Stick around. Til want to talk to you." - "At your service," Kelvey ans- wered, cheerfully. "Always glad to help you if I can." With this parting shot he saun- tered over to the switchboard, while Malloy and his men crowd- ed into the elevator with the luckless Roberts. : For the next fifteen minutes the lobby throbbed with activity. Police guarded the building. An immense crowd had gathered outside. Reporters fought for admittance. Out in the courtyard now cleared of outsiders, flash- lights flared as headquarters of- :ficials photographed the body of the man who had fallen from the fire escape, and after all formali- ties had been complied with the crushed form was whisked away ito the morgue. The switchboard operator was driven to desperation by calls from tenants seeking informa- tion until a curt order from Mal- loy, calling from Heath's apart- ment, bade her respond to none save incoming calls until he gave the word. Grateful for this res- pite, she leaned back witha sigh while the lights on the board twinkled madly. "Isn't it terrible?" she said, shakily, as Kelvey leaned across the desk. "A bad business," he admitted. "J just can't believe Mr. Heath is dead. He was always so nice. So jolly, and good-looking." "When did you last see him?" "Just last night. He was go- ing out to a party. He stopped to talk to me for a minute, as he always did. And to think he's) dead now!" The little operator dabbed at her eyes with a hand- kerchief. "You didn't know he was going away?" "Why, no! He never even mentioned it, and I'm sure he would. have said something about it. I'm only on duty at night, and if he had intended to go a- way this afternoon he would have said good-bye to me, at least." "Were there any calls to his apartment tonight? That is, be- fore Mr. Roberts found him?" "There was a call for him at about half-past six. From a girl. I didn't know then that Mr. Heath had given up his apart- ment, so I rang him but there was no answer." 'Did you recognize her voice? I mean, had she ever called him before?" "Not that I remember. Of course, lots of girls used to call him up, so I can't be sure." "A girl went up to his apart- ment tonight." "Yes, I saw her going into the elevator. She was a little bit of a thing. Cheaply dressed." oPretty 2? "Oh, yes--if you like that type! said the operator, patting her blonde hair. "Thin, and hungry- looking, but pretty, in a way." Kelvey suppressed a smile at this faint praise that damned. "You didn't know where she was going?" "No, the elevator boy told me she went into Mr. Heath's apart- ment." "What time was that?" "About eight o'clock." "Did she stay long?" "Only a few minutes. When she came down she fairly ran a- cross the lobby." "Did anyone else go up to the apartment?" "Wait till I finish telling you about the girl. Right after she had gone up, I was busy with a call, but out of the corner of my eye I saw someone cross the lobby. I hadn't heard anyone come in, and it gave me a bit ofa scare when I just barely caught sight of someone disappearing up the stairs." "A man?" "Yes. I had only the faintest glimpse of him. From here, you see, the stairs are almost hidden. He was just as silent as a cat, the way he got across the lobby." "You couldn't describe him?" The girl shook her head. "T couldn't tell you much about him except that I think he wore a cap, and was rather short." "Didn't you see him go again?" . p "No. He didn't come down in the elevator' and I didn't see any- one come down the stairs. Of course, he may have gone down through one of the other wings." 'Mid anyone else go up to Heath's apartment during the evening, that you know of?" "A young man went up at about nine o'clock. He was in evening dress. He was only up- stairs for about five minutes, then he came down again and went out. The boy told me that when he went up in the elevator he got out at the seventh floor and went down the corridor and knocked at Mr. Heath's door." out "What did this chap look like?" "Oh, he was a_ swell-looking fellow. Not as handsome as Mr. Keith, but he was tall and fair, and awfully well dressed." There had been considerable confusion in the lobby while Kelvey talked to the switchboard operator. Detectives and uni- formed men were going in and out of the building continuously, tenants desiring to leave were obliged to give their credentials to the officers at the door, the elevator clashed and hummed in- cessantly. The girl, obedient to instructions, ignored the twink- ling little lights on the board, but suddenly one imperative flash a- roused her to action. She answered the call, listened intently for a moment, then look- ed up at Kelvey. "They want you upstairs.' "Thank you, miss." Back in Heath's apartment, Kelvey sauntered in to face a group of detectives who eyed him with a certain amount of hostility, not unmixed with triumph. The body on the sofa was hiddent from view beneatha sheet. Roberts, the manager, was huddled in a chair, now utterly unnerved. Inspector Malloy, thumbs in his vest, leaned against the mantel. "Well, Mr. Kelvey," said Mal- loy, heavily, "I suppose you'll be able to tell us all about it. See- ing as you were on the ground first and had the jump on all the rest of us, I guess you'll be able to show us up again, eh?" "No, I'm afraid I can't help you a bit, inspector," returned Kel- vey, cheerfully. "Tm not askin' for help. I just want to know how far you have doped this business out, with all the start you've had on the rest of us." "I haven't doped it out at all. As a matter of fact, [ think it isa very complicated case." Malloy laughed joyously. "Well, that just shows how much you know about it. This is one case that the police get cre- dit for solving in double-quick time, Mr. Kelvey. Do you know who that guy was that you push- ed off the fire escape?" Kelvey's lips tightened. "T didn't push him off the fire- escape. He was fifteen feet a- way from me. He slipped on the wet steel." "Yeah? Well, any statement I give the papers is goin' to have it that you and this guy were out on the fire-escape, and he fell six or seven stories into the court- yard, and the public can draw their own conclusions. Not that it matters very much, only maybe some people will say you should have arrested him and let him have a fair trial. He got what was comin' to him." "Why ?" asked Kelvey, danger- ously quiet. "Because he was a murderer. He killed Heath." - "You think so?" "Don't you?" "No." Malloy chuckled. reporters that, too. Well, for your own information and so your conscience won't bother you for sendin' him to his death, 1'll tell you all about him. His name was Sam Bodansky. He was a crook and he served two terms up the river for robbery with violence. Heath caught him robbing the apartment. They had a fight, and Bodansky shot Heath. He got out the window when Roberts came into the apartment, but he couldn't get to the ground because the fire-es- cape passes an open window two storeys down, and he would have been seen. He was hidin' there on the fire-escape all- the time you and Roberts were in the apartment." "Very feasible, said Kelvey. "How do you know' Bodansky and Heath had a fight?" "Because the knuckles of Heath's right fist are skinned, and there's a fresh bruise on Bo- dansky's jaw." "How do you know Bodansky robbed Heath?" "Because we found a roll of bills in Bodansky's pocket, and Roberts identifies one of 'em asa bill he had given Heath when he ' "Tl tell the cashed a cheque for him yester- day. It had a blue pencil mark across it." "And how do you know Bodan- sky shot Heath?" "Because," declared Malloy, triumphantly, "we found the rod in Bodansky's pocket! We found the gun, with one empty shell, and the bullet in Heath's head was fired from it." (To be continued) [Here Bad There (691) More than two million fingerling salmon and 40,000 trout yearlings were placed in Nova Scotia lakes and streams during 1930 from the fish hatchery at Lake George. About $80,000,000 was spent in Canada in 1930 on hydro-electric power development and installa- tions, and it is expected that fully $300,000,000 will be spent for a similar purpose during the next three years. Cousumption of natural gas in Canada during 1929 for domestic purposes was calculated to be suf- ficient to displace 640,000 tons of coal. 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